Faculty Archives
Digital Library and Archives has provided web space for long-term access to faculty projects. For information about DLA's Faculty Archives, please contact Gail McMillan at gailmac@vt.edu or call (540) 231-9252.
DLA hosts, among others, Slavery in the American Mountain South
and Oral History of Principalship.
Janet L. Cameron
Janet L. Cameron Scrapbook
Traveling across Virginia as a Food and Nutrition Specialist from 1931-1964, Janet Cameron demonstrated modern recipes, cooking techniques, and food preparation ideas she developed. Her audiences included home demonstration clubs and 4-H club leaders. Alice Johnson documented Cameron's activities in this scrapbook. The Culinary Thymes, Issue 2, Winter 2001 features an article about Cameron's work.Patrick W. Carlton
Principalship Project
This is a collection of interviews of school principals from around Virginia. Transcripts and audio samples are provided. These pages were developed by Dr. Carlton in conjunction with the New Media Center [renamed InnovationSpace in 2008] while he was on the Virginia Tech faculty. Ms89-040Raymond Dessy, Professor Emeritus
Exile from Olynthus
Dr. Dessy has documented the year (1927-1928) that Wilhelmina van Ingen Elarth spent abroad at the American School for Classical Studies (ASCSA) in Athens. She participated in the excavations at the archeological site of the city of Olynthus. Elarth studied in Art and Architecture as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. Her collection, Ms69-004, is available in Special Collections.Mapping the Blues: Genes, Early Blues Music, 1900-1930
This illustrated essay examines the mutations of the "genes" which led to the expression of the early blues. Imbedded in the text are numberous examples of lyrics and cover-art from 1904-1928.William E. Dugger, Jr., Professor Emeritus
As director of the Technology for all Americans Project, Dr. Dugger lead the development of standards for technological literacy for the International Technology Education Association. The original TAA site is also available.
Wilma A. Dunaway
Slavery and Emancipation in the Mountain South: Sources, Evidence and Methods
This online archive supports Dr. Dunaway's books, Slavery in the American Mountain South and The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. Slavery flourished amidst a nonslaveholding majority and a large surplus of poor white landless laborers in Southern Appalachia.Southern Laboring Women: The Gendered Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Antebellum Appalachia, 1700-1860 is the companion Web site for Dr. Dunaway's book, Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She investigates the scope and socioeconomic impacts of antebellum women's work for the multiethnic majority of females who resided in the Appalachian South.
Elizabeth Fine
Sprechen und Verstehen (Speaking and Understanding: Writings on speech science and speech training) is a series published by Röhrig Universitätsverlag. Papers presented at the 20th International Colloqium on Communication, volume 27, which took place in July 2006 in Erfurt, Germany, is the first issue available online, but more are coming.
Volume 27 - Applied Communication in Organizational and International Contexts PDF (27 MB)
The printed volume is also available for purchase from Röhrig Universitätsverlag.Ann Hertzler, Professor Emerita
I've Been Working in the Kitchen
This online presentation was adapted from the slides and script created in the late 1980's for the Virginia Cooperative Extension to spark interest in teaching preschool children basic kitchen skills. The >90 images portray preschoolers learning by doing as they build on their basic skill set. This is part of the Dr. Ann Hertzler Collection, Ms2001-004.
I've Been Working in the Kitchen PDF (5.4 MB)
I've Been Working in the Kitchen Powerpoint Slides (6.8 MB)
I've Been Working in the Kitchen Script (12.6 K)Food Curriculum
Co-authored by Marilyn Blossom, this online presentation was adapted from the slides and script created for the Missouri Cooperative Extension. It shows how to teach preschool children basic kitchen skills. The more-than-130 images portray preschoolers learning by doing through instruction on where foods come from, food preparation skills, and foods nutritional values. This presentation also illustrates how children learn to use math, social, classification, and motor skills while preparing food. This is part of the Dr. Ann Hertzler Collection, Ms2001-004.
Food Curriculum PDF (5.4 MB)
Food Curriculum Powerpoint Slides (12.3 MB)
Food Curriculum Script (181 K)Nutrition Central
This site was aimed at K-6 teachers and students, offering information on all the food groups, pages just for teachers and just for students, and food related books. Hertzler developed this Web site while she was faculty of the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech.Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni & Abbye A. Gorin
A Visual Text: History of Architecture Catalogue for Hypertext
This site was adapted from a laser disc developed teaching art history to Architecture students at Virginia Tech's by Dr. Rodriguez and Abbye A. Gorin. The originial text and images were from the laser disk were reformatted for this Web site. This site is available to the VT campus only.Richard B. Talbot
The Green Book
In the 1990s, the Scholarly Communications Project worked with Dr. Richard Talbot to provide access to the FDA Approved Animal Drug Data Base, a database that was developed and managed by the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. The Green Book is now published by the US Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine.
